Bogotá es Mozart: Colombia gives an object lesson to the rest of the world

Picture the scene: Easter Saturday afternoon in Bogotá and outside the Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción de Suba, the locals queued not just down the block, but down the next four streets. No, it wasn’t a religious service, which would have been entirely understandable in this staunchly Catholic country, but a concert. A free concert. A classical music concert. The police happily broke regulations to allow the crowds in and by the time we took our seats to listen to the Kölner Akademie play Mozart, the church was brimming with people of all ages, standing five abreast in the aisles…